Windows 10's July 29 release date is looming. The OEMs we've spoken to in the past few months have all been confident that they'll have at least some hardware with Windows 10 preinstalled available to buy on launch day.
It now looks as if those plans have been derailed. Bloomberg reports that Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft vice president of Windows and device marketing, has said that Windows 10 hardware will be available "very soon after" July 29 but not on the day.
The problem is that Windows 10 still hasn't had its release to manufacturing (RTM) version yet. It was initially expected that the RTM would be built last week, but it hasn't been. Currently the rumor mill is speculating that Wednesday will be the day. Either way, it seems there won't be enough time for the OEMs to test the build, install it to newly built systems, and get those systems delivered to retailers' shelves in time for July 29. The new Windows 10 release schedule was already significantly compressed—in previous versions there were usually a few months between RTM and retail availability—and as such has a lot less slack to cope with these delays.
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